The Traveling Salvation Seagull
How Neil Diamond and a marine scavenger created a new genre of pop music.
Bad Chymistrie
A friend of mine posted a meme on Facebook the other day that said this: Why do they call it ‘alternative medicine’ when it is the ‘original medicine’ that humans have been using for thousands of years? Chemical medications were discovered about a 100 years ago! That seems like a mild enough argument, though my friend…
The Rise And Fall Of Rocket-Ship Medicine
Baby Boomers were told that Science would fix everything. They need to get over their disappointment. “Doctors don’t know anything,” the woman said, and a half-dozen heads nodded in automatic agreement. The crowd at the party was mostly about my age – Baby Boomers, though it’s getting harder all the time to picture us as babies.…
Are You Sure Albert Einstein Done It This Way?
Ariel asked me the other day if I’d heard of something called Image Streaming. I thought this might have something to do with YouTube, so I absentmindedly said yes, but that was a mistake. Image Streaming turned out to be a technique she’d read about for unleashing certain amazing powers hidden in the human brain. Ariel believes…
Gumby & Fidge 